New Ulm weekly review., 1887-11-30
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Now, Jack, tell me about it?''
Well, Alice, dear, il was q mighty
close fit. I will tell ye. There was
dozen OF us sortin' logs up at the bot
l3tons, for to feed the mills tomorrow,
an q good many logs had come down
through the day. an kind o. jammed
up things SO there was some danger o.
the boom break n cause the water is.
higher'n n usual just now. jim Brown
an me was toeether, an ] see Jln,
! look sort o. serious, so I asked him
about it. He didn't say nothin' for
minute, but pretty soon he says:
! '.Tom Gage oughter know, he says
the boom is strong; but reckon il
there is much Of a lam up above it'll
tear things when it does bust. An,
/ judgin' by the looks o. the river, /
reckon there is a bad jam somewhere
81 looked up the river and sect
there was mighty few logs coming
down, an knowed there must be-.
Just then Bill Hoyey came down an
says: 5.5# .s5
'''There is q jam up to Wilson's
! Bend!'
"'Twarn't only 2 o'clock, an /
knowed l was likely to get back at my
usual time, SO didn't send no word,
but jim an me jumped into a wagon
and drove up as fast as we could 60.
When we got there, we saw 'twere a.
pretty bad jam, fer mother one fur.
ther up the river had busted and piled
up the logs mighty thick. When one
brings another that way. ye know,
that makes it bad. Well, we worked
nigh an hour tryin' TO start her from
/ the shore. but twan' no use, an
finally Jim said: .s
''Twon't do to leave this go on.
! We've got to work in the middle.
Who'll 90 with me2' an he started for
the middle o. the river. Z
! ''Well, I see the boys all look at
| me. They knowed we'll enough that ]
was the best man to go-I knowed it
too, but ! thought o you an waited
a minute. But the other fellers said
they would not, so went.
'Fore got to where Jim was, ] see
that if we did start it from the mid
die we'd likely have to come down on
the logs to the boom, an I knowed it
was a mighty risky job. But twas
the only way to the mills, an some
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worked the best we knowed for half
an hour.
| At last we started it, an see
there was just q chance to get to
shore. Jim was just ahead of
me, an we was goin' as we
could. when the thing gave way, an
we were sailin' down the river at the
| rate OF fifty miles an hour.
eve hadn't gone quarter OF mile
| afore the log was on turned an in
steppin' round one of the spikes on
my boots snapped off and ! slipped
III. I hung on to my pole, an made
a bridge tween the logs, an i was
/ just climbin' up when another log
struck the end OF it an splintered it
into bites. Itell back an thought /
was clean under, but the two logs
just clamped me by the neck.
You may know how quick they
| come together by KNOWN they didn't
| Craze my shoulders as fell, but they
caught my neck atore my head got
under water. But quick as twas, /
had time, as see EN- comm; to hope
you was prayin TOR me. 1t didn't
look like anything else could save me,
for knowed when the logs come to-
gether they'd crush my head like an
egg-shell.' 81.
"Oh, Jack!''
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nt.nu was ~ nis lips.
.'Well, well: didn't have time to
think OF much, Ter teit the logs was
chokin me, an yet | knowed some.
thing was keepln EN- about four inches
apart. What twas didn't know
until afterward. Ny arms was free
under me, an tried to pull the logs
apart, but bless ye, they was a million
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